“Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.”
“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
“The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.”
“The winter will be long and bleak. Nature has a dismal aspect.”
“She could smell the sea in the air, but more than that, she could smell the scent of the grass as it awoke from its winter slumber. She could hear the sound of crickets as they sang to the emerging stars. It was springtime on the North Island. It was springtime for the world.”
“Creative thinking encompassed by the Word of God infuses into you the divine ability to turn the seemingly ugly situation around.”